2009-03-26, 12:28
jarod71 Wrote:xvid looks great and it is not sd resolution, it is 720p xvid. this is a hd resolution, it may not be as sharp as h.264 or detailed but it is a world of difference better than dvd.
Agreed that XviD compression is better than DVD's MPEG2, but I disagree that XviD looks "great". In fact, although the compression may be better, the overall fidelity of XviD encoded video is actually much worse. That is why the BluRay/HDDVD standard uses MPEG2 and H.264/VC-1 and not XviD/DivX.